Renato Capecchi
Opera Singer, Musical Artist
1923 – 1998
Who was Renato Capecchi?
Renato Capecchi was an Italian baritone, actor, and opera director.
He sang in the Italian premiere of Shostakovich's The Nose and Prokofiev's War and Peace, and in the world premieres of Gian Francesco Malipiero's La donna è mobile, Giorgio Federico Ghedini's Billy Budd and Lord Inferno, and Sylvano Bussotti's L'ispirazione.
In 1951, Capecchi made his New York Metropolitan Opera debut as Germont in La traviata and sang regularly in leading roles there until 1954. After a period of singing primarily in European opera houses, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in 1975 where he specialized in smaller comic roles in otherwise tragic operas such the Sacristan in Tosca and Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème.
Amongst the productions Capecchi directed were The Daughter of the Regiment at New York City Opera, Così fan tutte in Susa, Italy, and the US premiere of Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni Tenorio, ossia Il convitato di pietra with the San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program, in Saratoga, California.
Recordings are available of him as Figaro, Ford, Jago, Scarpia, and, in an Italian translation-performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Beckmesser.
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- Born
- Nov 6, 1923
Cairo - Also known as
- Capecchi, Renato
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Egypt
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 30, 1998
Milan
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on July 23, 2013
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